MIND EASING

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Advance Praise for Mind Easing

This is just what the doctor ordered: a ground-breaking, eye-opening, mind-opening book that provides a pioneering, perceptive, provocative, practical, positive, powerful plan for healing. It is filled with impactful, innovative, intriguing ideas, insights, and inspiration that will engage and enrich the lives of people facing anxiety and depression as well as their health care practitioners, helping professionals, and caregivers.

—Dr. Joel Goodman , Founder of the HUMOR Project, Inc. in Saratoga Springs, NY, author of Laffirmations: 1,001 Ways to Add Humor to Your Life and Work

Dr. Bick Wanck unveils a remarkably safe and effective approach to the relief of both “soft” and “hard” versions of anxiety and depression that empowers the natural flow of healing. Mind Easing offers a simple, powerful, and actionable healing plan that will help millions on their road to mental health wellness.

—Mark Hyman, MD , Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. #1 New York Times bestselling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?”

Diverse lifestyle and therapeutic modalities, so often presented as mutually exclusive, are incorporated in Mind Easing into an approach aimed at not just temporary treatment but long-term healing. Author Bick Wanck, MD, encourages sufferers to create a fluid healing plan that adjusts to changing conditions in their lives to maximize healing and safety, not just relieve symptoms. This is a very helpful addition to the literature for those with depression or anxiety and likely for their caregivers as well.

Mind Easing reminds us that sometimes the gut holds the key to emotional wellness. With his recommendations for diet, including the use of psychobiotics, Dr. Wanck shows readers how a diet that is good for the gut can also be good for the mind.

Each layer of Mind Easing’s personal healing plan incorporates simple, effective, and doable approaches that will motivate and empower readers to play an active role in their healing. Dr. Bick Wanck provides a much-needed guide to relieving anxiety and depression that will help readers discover how resilient they truly are.

From the moment you open this book, you will feel Dr. Bick Wanck’s caring, professional, and trustworthy nature. His words are soothing, and his effective multilayered plan is easy to adopt. With his kind and encouraging style, Dr. Wanck helps you weave a powerful healing plan that will guide you out of the tangles of distress and into a state of comfort and clarity.

Dr. Bick Wanck has written a clear, thoughtful, and well-reasoned guide to healing the troubled or injured mind. Unlike “either/or” approaches to emotional distress, Mind Easing brings together the best medical, psychological, and spiritual approaches in a well-integrated, holistic framework. Dr. Wanck emphasizes the mind’s natural healing abilities and how best to augment them with judicious use of mindfulness, exercise, diet, and stress management—and in some instances, with “talk therapy” or medication. I recommend this very helpful book to anyone who is searching for a path to emotional and physical wellness.

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About Bick

Psychiatrist and author, Bick Wanck, is one of the founders of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. Dr. Wanck is Board Certified in Psychiatry and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Albany Medical College, in Albany, NY.

His successful therapy treatment program is based on the philosophy that people have inherent self-healing and growth processes, and that they can change negative, distorted perceptions with ones that are positive and healthy.